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A dog park in Cambridge, Mass., is being lit up by the excrement of the dogs who visit, reports Fast Company. Dogwalkers are encouraged to deposit their pets' waste at a methane digester called the Park Spark, which then turns into a burnable gas that powers a lamppost. The team behind the project hopes the park will be busy enough to power other objects, like popcorn stands or projectors for community events.

"The digester will never generate enough energy to power, say, a whole block of streetlights, but that's not the point," writes Ariel Schwartz. "If Park Spark can demonstrate to community members that waste is a precious resource, it will have fulfilled its goal."

Brilliant, just poopilliant! As the earth warmeth, natural methane will be released. Poops released lots of methane as it break down. If we convert the trunk of our car for the same purpose say good bye to fossil oil. Good use for human poops and we don't have to worry about polluting the planet. Former gas station will be converted to selling buckets of poops. Of course, Italian and Indians have higher octane that most vegeterian poops so price differ and bitch all you want about racism. It's also job creation. If it sounds like I'm self-fulfilling prophecy that'll doom the planet, my apology. I have nothing else to do. Imagine if aliens from another planet observed us and the first they learned that we live on waste.

Naked_Emperor

Sep 12, 2010 1:43 PM CDT

"The digester will never generate enough energy to power, say, a whole block of streetlights, but that's not the point," It would if I was walking my dogs in that park.